INDIANA HORTICULTURAL SOCIKTY. 50" 



aud it pays to be hoyest about thtMii. I believe it pays to be honest any- 

 how, but it csj)ecially pays in paclcing apples. It sometimes happens that 

 small apples will run to the center of tlie barrels, but they ought not. 

 and if picked from the trees they will not be apt to do so. ' 

 Now wc have the apples in the barrels, ready to use or sell 



-Mr. Burton: In packing these apples do you grade them as to size? 

 In picking them from the trees do you grade as to size? 



Mr. Stanton: I will explain tliat a little further on. We have packing 

 tables— the apples never touch the ground, but we make a canvas-top 

 table: we take four or sixteen trees in a square, and after we have 

 picked and sorted them, we move the tables and take another square. The 

 apples never touch the ground, i)ut they touch the table. They are 

 poured on to this table on the canvas— not poured on top of one another— 

 and if we want to make niunber one and two grades, we do so, and the 

 culls are dropped under the tables. 



Mr. Bin-ton: I wanted to know if you graded as to size as well as 

 to culls? 



Mr. Stanton: AVe have grade No. 1 and grade No. 2— of course that 

 grades as to size. The question of grades is very largely governed by 

 the kind of crop you have. 



Mr. Burton: What would you do with a barrel of apples that all 

 ran barely number one? 



Mr. Stanton: I would pack them straight. 



Mr. Burton: Numbers one and two together? 



Mr. Stanton: Yes. if they couldn't go as number one. I should grade 

 them as number two. 



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yir. Burtori: But if they were barely number one? 



Mr. Stanton: Well, if they were not number one they are not num- 

 ber one. They would have to go in a straight package; it might be a 

 good medium betAveen the number one and number two. and they will 

 show up for themselves; Avhenever you open the barrel the buyer will 

 see the grade. I do not believe in a lot of apples that runs largely to 

 number two; it pays to pifk numbers one and two. because when you are 

 taking nnnibor one you are going to take some that are not number one. 

 leaving the balance culls. I do not believe it pays, in that case, to make 

 two grades. 



Now as to the question of handling apples by small growers, or, for 

 the matter of that, of handling any kind of fruit by small growers. A 

 community that will produce enough stuff to load a car in one. or even 



